Search Results: Titles starting with V from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1963. Advance Reading Copy. Softcover. Very Good. Advance reading copy of the first American edition. Very Good in publisher's gray printed wraps with black topstain. Sunning to spine and edges, light edge wear to wraps with a small tear to the top of the front cover near the joint, rubbing to bottom edge of page block and two small stains to edge of page block. A rather sharp copy.

New York: Fluxus Editorial Council, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. Tabloid newspaper. 16 pp. with both loose Correction and Wedding Illustration tan inserts. Fine with a bit of age-toning to newsprint sheets. An excellent copy of the final issue of the Fluxus periodical V Tre, commemorating the life of George Maciunas in fittingly absurd style.

New York: DC Comics, 1990. First hardcover edition. First hardcover edition. (Also the book club edition, which follows a paperback printing.) 285 pp. Bound in publisher's black boards with gilt spine lettering. Fine with age-toned pages, in a Near Fine dust jacket, bright with hardly any wear, verso a little foxed. Rare.An attractive copy of the graphic novel that inspired the 2005 film. Like most adaptations of Moore's work the film has its advocates and detractors but the book itself is an undeniable classic. The image of the Guy Fawkes mask that graces this jacket has become a symbol for dissent in the 21st century.

New York: VVV, 1944. First Edition. Fine. No.4, February 1944. 86, [12] pp. with plates. Illustrated red wraps with yapped edges. Basically a Fine copy, unsophisticated, very bright and clean, slight bump to head, tiny scratch to spine, offsetting to plate between pages 56 and 57. The final issue of the surrealist journal, featuring work by Aime Cesaire, Andre Breton, Philip Lamantia, Benjamin Peret, Leonora Carrington, Marcel Duchamp, Wilfredo Lam, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and more. Cover illustration by Chilean artist Roberto Matta.

New York: An H.A.Product (A Division of Theoretical Productions), printed by Montanaprinners, an M.H.I. Enterprise, 1981. First edition. No. 1 March 81, and No. 2 April 81 May 81.14, [2] pp. and 16, [2] pp. Bound in original pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Very Good+ or better with light wear at corners of both issues, a little soiling in covers of first issue, light red offsetting on front cover of second issue. Uncommon, OCLC locates four libraries holding any copies of this title. The rare first two issues of The Valium Addict, American filmmaker, writer, and photographer Richard Kern's successor to his first zine, The Heroin Addict, which had run in seven issues from 1978 to 1981. The Valium Addict, in turn, ran in six issues, from 1981 to 1983, with "Dumb Fucker" included in its title in the fourth issue and replacing the earlier title in the fifth and sixth. The zine features a combination of drawings, photographs, collages, and text by Stewart Wilson, Holly George, Bunny Ryals, Ronnie Burk,… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1964. First Edition. Very Good+. Uncorrected proof copy, issued before the first edition. 243 pp. Wraps. A Very Good+ copy with slightly rubbed and scuffed wraps, slightly toned spine, but in quite nice shape overall. Much brighter and cleaner than most surviving proof copies. The seventh book in the A Dance to the Music of Time series.

Akron and New York: The Saalfield Pub. Co, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. (This is the last Air Mystery title listed on the back panel of the jacket.) 280 p. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Christmas inscription with sticker on front end paper, light bumping to corners, else fine. Clean pages, toned with age. Jacket has light chipping at head, tiny mark on spine, light edge wear. An attractive copy of a book in the juvenile Air Mystery Series.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. First Edition. First edition. [vi], 310 pp. Publisher's crimson cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with rubbing along edges, slightly foxed edges, former owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with a small chip near head, a little insecting to white parts. The third book (of the four listed in Hubin) by a now-obscure author known for her macabre style. Scarce in jacket.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. First issue with the headline on page 1 in rustic type, the woodcut of Mr. Steyne on page 336 which was later suppressed, and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453; bound without ads. Finely bound in somewhat contemporary three-quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards; with raised bands and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine. Binding and gilt stamping is rubbed. Pages toned. Foxing, staining browning to plates (as is typical), with occasional offsetting from images onto adjacent pages. Illustrated on steel and wood by the author.

London: John Murray, 1868. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first issue; one of 1,500 copies. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original green cloth decoratively ruled in blind with spine lettered in gilt. viii, 411 pp. + 32pp [first issue ads, dated April, 1867]; viii, 486 pp. + [2]pp [first issue ads, dated February 1868]; with five lines errata in volume 1 and 7 lines errata in volume II. .Near Fine with light soiling, light edge wear, light rubbing and light bubbling to cloth. Inner hinges repaired, former owner name to title pages, and bookseller ticket to rear pastedowns. Features the first appearance of the iconic Darwinian phrase "survival of the fittest.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes. 473 p.; 494 p. Authorized edition. Illustrated. Very Good condition. Clean pages. Scratching to marbled cloth; wear to crimson cloth at heads. Bumped corners with exposed tips. 1913 bookplates on paste downs.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. First edition. Copy number 703 of a limited 825 copies, signed by W. B. Yeats on a tipped in page. Near Fine with mild sunning to spine. In a Near Fine publisher's original slipcase, with toning, light soiling and light wear. The limitation sheets were signed by Yeats in 1939, and retained by the publisher until this posthumous publication in 1957.

Mayavati, India: Advaita Ashrama, 1937. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. [vi], 217, [1], IV, III pp. with tissue-guarded portrait of the author at front. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with tiny tear to one page repaired with old cellophane tape, in a Near Fine jacket with light foxing. An examination of ancient Indian culture and questions of Aryan influence and origins from an academic who spent many years in India writing and lecturing on the subject. At the time of this book's publication he lived in Portland, Oregon and was a visiting lecturer at University of Washington in Seattle. Uncommon.

New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 1909. Very Good. Signed by Swami Paramananda and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's orange cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on upper board and spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good, cloth lightly rubbed at tips, spine toned and stained at rear cover. A lovely copy, signed by the author.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by F. Scott Fitzgerald on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with titles in blind on upper board and in gilt on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with spine slightly darkened, lightly worn at ends and with gilt rubbed and faded. Pages toned. Light spotting to front end sheet, and a short crack at the top gutter of the front free endpaper. A lovely copy, signed by the author.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. First edition, cloth issue. Signed by Denis Johnson on the half title, inscribed to former owner with advice to "REMEMBER WHITMAN." [xii] 78, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Poetry by the author of Jesus' Son and Tree of Smoke; fans of his fiction are in for a treat when they first encounter his poetry, which is just as good. Rare in the hardcover issue.

New York and London: George H. Doran and Heinemann, 1922. First Edition. Near Fine/Good. First edition, first printing, American issue. Bound in publisher's original yellow paper-covered boards with rear cover blank with Whitefriars Press slug at rear following last page of text. Near Fine with light soiling and light wear at edges, slight natural wave to pages, former owner name in pencil to verso of title page but overall a bright and attractive copy. In a Good restored dust jacket which is soiled, and trimmed roughly a quarter-inch shorter than the book; the British issue jacket was used for the American, and the Heinemann imprint is present at the foot of the spine and the flaps are blank. Illustrated by William Nicholson.

London: Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd, 1964. First Edition. First edition. xiv, 373 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with metallic blue spine lettering. Near Fine with faint foxing to edges, former owner's name on front free endpaper in light pencil, in a Near Fine dust jacket, lightly worn. Two clipped articles about author laid in. An attractive copy of the uncommon first book by the influential American historian, political scientist, and sociologist Charles Tilly (1929-2008), an examination of the French counter-revolution of 1793.

[Brno, Czech Republic]: Grafický klub pro Moravu, 1926. First edition. Portfolio housing six loose prints, each signed in pencil by Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova, the artist. Complete. Paperclip stains and faint impression along top edge, else Fine. Paper toned with age. Rare, only two institutional copies located in WorldCat. A visual hymn to the watery byways of Venice, Italy by the Czech artist who has been called the first female graphic novelist.

Stockholm: [No Publisher], 1911. Two 9.5" x 11.75" notebooks, apparently fragments of a larger autobiographical project or series of projects, with holograph entries and illustrations, some materials pasted on from magazines, sheet music, and newspapers. Titles handwritten in ink on front covers. Over five hundred pages of manuscript and illustrations, total. Near Fine. The first volume, titled simply Venom on the front board is a dark, obsessive meditation on American arrogance and prejudice towards Swedes and other Scandinavians. The author, a Swedish immigrant, opens with an eye-catching, skillful ink illustration of a hand holding a pistol (the ring on the hand bearing the author's initials). The text below reads "ANYBODY CONSIDERING IT HIS PRIVILEGE TO USE MY PERSON AS A MEANS FOR THROWING DIRT ON THE FLAG OF SWEDEN IS KINDLY INVITED TO SEE ME ABOUT IT, PERSONALLY. I AM FOR INDIVIDUAL "LIBERTY." - DON'T TREAD ON ME !" We then read a fictional dialogue between Swedes about Americans, how… Read More